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By Wesley J. Smith A news story reports that Jahi McMath, declared dead by the State of California, is being maintained at a Catholic hospital in New Jersey. More, that she may be becoming responsive. From the San Jose Mercury News story: KPIX reported that she...
By Dave Andrusko A nice ending… Earlier this week, NRL News Today posted about the request of the family of Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old Oakland girl declared brain-dead in December, that she receive a diploma. The Oakland Tribune reported that following a...
By Dave Andrusko The family of Jahi McMath is posting on social media, asking supporters to contact her charter school to ask them to grant the eighth-grader a diploma this week. Jahi, diagnosed as brain-dead, was the center of a tremendous battle between the...
By Dave Andrusko In the letter sent via Facebook to KTVU Channel 2 news anchor Frank Somerville, the mother of Jahi McMath has thanked those who have supported the family, assuring the public that her daughter is not suffering and “that she is much better...
By Dave Andrusko The lawyer for the family of Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old who has been declared brain dead, said Wednesday that doctors successfully inserted a gastric tube and tracheotomy tube into the teenager at an as yet undisclosed facility. Jahi was...
By Wesley J. Smith This is a good example why people are losing trust in the health care system. Over at CNN, medical producer Stephanie Smith writes a story arguing that we should do away with second opinions in determining brain death. From, “Repeat Exams for...
By Dave Andrusko The attorney for the family of Jahi McMath, Christopher Dolan, will not even confirm which coast the family has moved the teenager to, out of a desire, he says, to shield the family’s privacy and because of emails and posts that angrily...
By Dave Andrusko Having reached an accommodation with Children’s Hospital Oakland, the family of Jahi McMath on Sunday moved the teenager, diagnosed as brain dead, to an as yet unnamed New York facility where the 13 year old has been accepted as a patient....
By Dave Andrusko Today U.S. Magistrate Donna Ryu will hear both sides—the family of Jahi McMath and the hospital where she is a patient—in an attempt to work out a settlement in the increasingly contentious battle over the fate of a teenager who has been...
By Dave Andrusko Jahi McMath remains on a ventilator today as her family continues its frantic struggle to find a doctor who will insert feeding and breath tubes into the 13-year-old who has been diagnosed as brain-dead. One part of the complex network of...